VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL NETWORK

Free webinars and resources for supervisors to support their professional development

[Eve] Created the Global Supervisors Network, which is very popular, un-bureaucratic, and the sessions are always well-attended (not easy to achieve when people are so busy and often don’t invest enough in their own CPD)!

Coaching at Work awards judge (2018)

I believe supervision is the most undervalued part of our work and Eve's focus on developing a community of learning across the supervision space so that we might develop and grow this capability I find inspirational.

Coaching at Work magazine

EVE TURNER ASSOCIATES IS PROUD TO SUPPORT THE 2019

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Eve recommends Values and Ethics in Coaching

The Global Supervisors’ Network is unique. It is the first, free, participative network for supervisors across the world working in coaching, mentoring and consultancy to provide each other with, and receive, Continuing Personal and Professional Development virtually.

It was set up by Eve Turner in early 2016 and the criteria for joining are that members are qualified and experienced supervisors of coaches, mentors and/or consultants. There are webinars at least monthly, where around 150 members from around the world provide each other with excellent learning opportunities on a range of diverse subjects broadly related to supervision and/or personal development. Recordings and other materials, such as slides,are made available for members of the network. This is all done at no cost to members to join or attend the webinars, as Eve pays the costs, with the sole aim of supporting best practice.

GNS members include supervisors working in countries such as India, the USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Vietnam, Oman and Turkey, as well as throughout Europe such as Spain, Poland, Portugal, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. The GSN has established a community that brings together some of the leading thinkers in the field. Seventy-five webinars were provided between 2016 and 2018.

Members can also choose to be involved in working groups and research projects and have participated in research on ethics, contracting, the role generational differences may play in supervision, dealing with bereavement and supervision of supervision. The pioneering research into supervision of supervision began in Autumn 2017 and initial findings were reported in the AC’s Global Perspectives magazine, pages 39-41, in late 2017 and at the EMCC research conference in 2018. Further publications will follow in 2019 involving members such as Michel, Moral, Jo Birch, Damian Goldvarg and Eve Turner. This includes a chapter in a 2019 EMCC book on supervision written by Michel Moral and Eve Turner.

The Global Supervisors’ Network is also proud to have offered to partner with EthicalCoach the philanthropic arm of WBECS, to support aspiring coaches in Africa with supervision. Trained in coaching by Professor David Clutterbuck, ten GSN members have given their time, voluntarily, to supervise the coaches since spring 2018, and will continue to do so at least until the end of 2019. The aim of this phase of EthicalCoach is to support NGO leaders from Ethiopian non-government/civil society organizations committed to tackling humanitarian and environmental challenges, so aiming to transform the lives of children and families in need. More details of the initiative can be found on the EthicalCoach website.

Please contact Eve Turner (eve@eve-turner.com) or the Virtual Assistant to the GSN, Fiona Benton (fiona@creativeassistant.co.uk) for more details on the GSN. Virtual sessions are held 1900 on Thursdays and 0800 on Fridays (UK time), at least monthly.

New members receive links to all previous recordings, and to slides, where available.

14/15 February 2019 – How conscious of our purpose and intention are we when we intervene with our clients? Benita Treanor

We will consider, discuss and raise our awareness of how we intervene with our supervisees and clients through the lens of John Heron’s Six Categories of Intervention. The framework firstly places helping into two categories – either “authoritative” or “facilitative”, each of which is further divided into three different types of intervention. All are of equal importance within a given context, but we may all favour some at the expense of others. We will explore the different types of interventions and how being aware of our intention as a supervisor is at the heart of how we decide on what intervention we chose to offer our supervisees. We will consider what our preferred approach is and how this may enable or inhibit our work. In raising our consciousness of how we intervene we have an opportunity to discern and flex our style to meet the current circumstance as its arises.

7/8 March 2019 – Using the ‘unconscious’ as a resource for coaching supervision: Dr Lise Lewis

Defining the ‘unconscious’ changes as new understandings emerge. However, we appear to find what we believe emerges form the ‘unconscious’ impacts on our relationships and our worldview. This session presents latest research into the unconscious and encourages a dialogue to explore experiences of using the unconscious as a resource in the supervision conversation.

As relational beings sooner or later we will go through bereavement in our lives, regardless of it being related to the death of a family member, a friend, someone we admire or a pet. In this session we will talk through the implications of bereavement in the coaching session, namely the coach’s preparation, the coach’s emotional regulation, what competencies need paying attention to and a few exercises that can help the client. As supervisors, bereavement is more and more a topic that comes up. We will discuss some of the doubts that coaches might bring to supervision and how supervisors can help them overcome these as well as the practical and ethical considerations when supervisors too, cease their practice (voluntarily or unexpectedly).

Embracing the future and future trends. In this webinar we will explore the STEEP elements of foresight (social, technological, economical, environmental and political) and the role of the supervisors and coaches in bringing awareness to their clients so they can make decisions today taking into account signals from the future.

30/31 May 2019 – How will artificial intelligence affect supervision? Professor David Clutterbuck

Algorithms can already do much of what basic level coaches do — and their competence is increasing rapidly. But coach-AI partnerships will allow coaches, who can adapt to the new ways of working and who bring more mature approaches to their practice, to add more value to their clients. In this webinar, we will explore:

What can and can’t AI do?

Who is under threat and why?

What does an effective coach-AI partnership look like?

What will an effective supervisor-AI look like?

6/7 June – How do generational differences affect the supervisory system? Natalia de Estevan-Ubeda and Peter Duffell.

This webinar will explore how generational differences are relevant in coaching supervision. We will explore the underlaying traits which characterise the generations currently present in the workplace and who are part of the coach-client-supervisor system. We will present survey data on how coach supervisors experience generational differences, and we will invite the participants to discuss 2 or 3 questions to promote debate over this topic, making the session interactive through some thought-provoking questions.

27/28 June 2019 – Nature as dynamic co-partner: Catherine Gorham

Many of us find ourselves moving outdoors with our clients without necessarily thinking about what this means for us as practitioner, for our clients and the working container we co-create – what is different about this? This webinar is an invitation to develop our awareness in how to optimise nature as a co-dynamic partner in our supervision/coaching practice, to use contracting to hold containment in an uncontained space to ensure psychological safety and accelerate somatic processing. There will be some theory to explain why nature is such a powerful gift for our work and practical guidance including when working outdoors may not be appropriate. An experiential exercise will also inquire as to how nature can be invited in even when working virtually.

11/12 July – Coaching and Supervison with the Body: Elspeth Campbell

This approach assists the Supervisor and Coach practitioner to work with whole beings in the room and to use embodied relational wisdom to engage body, feelings, mind and spirit. It draws on the tradition of Yoga and Psychosynthesis Psychology and fits with the essence of the webinars run previously by Fiona Adamson for GSN. We will explore the use of meditative pause, body postures, regulated breath, movement metaphors and philosophical threads.

8/9 August – Use of self: A Transactional Analysis (TA) perspective on working positively with the parallel process in supervision: Karen Pratt

This webinar will offer opportunities to interactively explore 3 TA models (OK-OK communication, Drama triangle and Winners circle) and discuss how these frameworks can provide useful self awareness for the supervisor to notice a potential unconscious negative parallel process between supervisor and coach, and either proactively name it and work with it, or role model a positive parallel process with the coach. Such reflection and/or modelling has the potential to impact the whole system in which the coach is involved.

19/20 September – Return on Investment in Supervision – Who Cares? – and How to Measure It: Colin Wilson

When in conversations with potential buyers of Supervision, they may need to hear justifications for buying, and different buyers will need to hear different things. Some will ask about ROI (return on investment). What do they need, and how do we respond/proact? This session explores a case of how we might demonstrate the value of supervision in concrete or even financial terms, in advance of doing the work and afterwards. It is hoped this will help participants consider and prepare for gaining more good supervision work.

3/4 October – Supervising coaches one-to-one — how many people are really in the room? Dr. Paul Lawrence

This session will expand on the paper “A narrative approach to coaching multiple selves” https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/11a8381e-e0ce-4e3d-a8d2-ef1e16cdf232/1/ and consider its implications for coaching supervision. According to many philosophers and psychologists, we are each not one, but many. The origins of multiplicity theory will be very briefly outlined before we get into some practical work, exploring the nature and origins of some of our own selves, before considering how we can best manage the complex group dynamics involved in working with people one-to-one!

14/15 November – Virtual Small Group Supervision – building a safe container: Kathryn Downing

Kathryn will share key learnings from her research on 5 virtual groups engaged for 12 months in small group supervision.

5/6 December 2019. How do we serve wider stakeholders beyond our clients and including the non-human world, in our supervision sessions? Professor Peter Hawkins and Eve Turner

What can we do, as supervisors, to move coaching beyond “delivering very expensive personal development for the already highly privileged” and deliver beneficial impact to all stakeholders including the ecology? This is a question posed at the start of Peter and Eve’s book, “Systemic Coaching – delivering value beyond the individual” due out early 2020. Join in the debate on our role as supervisors: what is it, what could it be, what should it be? We will use breakout rooms for smaller discussions.

Eve says: “I am thrilled, surprised, honoured, and humbled to have received the EMCC Supervision Award, and I am really grateful to those who took the time to make nominations, to the judges for their time, and to the EMCC for highlighting the importance of supervision. In the decade since my supervision training, I’ve been fortunate to work with the most amazing, supportive people as supervisor, writer, and researcher. When I set up the Global Supervisors’ Network (GSN) to provide CPD for trained and qualified supervisors I had no idea it would grow to the current 150 members globally. By January 2019 we’ve run 80 webinars at no cost to members to join or attend. Volunteering has also provided wonderful opportunities, with the EMCC, and on important humanitarian projects as a volunteer supervisor, like CoachActivism with refugees, and most recently through the GSN as a supervision partner to EthicalCoach for charities and non-profit organisations. Thank you so much for this encouragement.”

Tatiana says: “Thank you very much, EMCC! It is lovely to receive such recognition in the professional area that is so close to my heart. Long live coaching supervision for the benefit of the whole coaching field!”

Angela says: “I feel honoured and humbled to receive this award from such a highly regarded organisation as EMCC, whose purpose and vision are so closely aligned with my own. On a personal level, this feels like a milestone in my own journey from a lawyer to coach and coach supervisor , which started over 10 years ago. As a very small lever in this huge system of which we are all a part, I acknowledge those who have supported and motivated me in my work, including my amazing supervisors and supervisees, the wonderful members of our supervision groups, and the enthusiastic coaches who participated in the recent coaching supervision research project. Your openness and generosity provide the impetus and energy for this work. I believe that we are at a pivotal moment in the evolution of coaching supervision, particularly in the USA. It is a privilege to be able to play, even a small part, in its co-creation and emergence in what I hope is a positive and powerful way. Thank you doesn’t even come close to describing the gratitude I feel towards my teachers, mentors, colleagues, and friends at the University of Sydney, who opened up this world to me, and inspire me to be more, and do more, every day. Finally, I’d like to thank my teachers and ‘my tribe’ and Oxford Brookes University in the UK , whose wisdom, guidance (and humour) I cherish.”

Nominees:Peter Welch – who co-founded and helps lead the Association of Coaching Supervisors and is involved in a project looking at ethics for the AC/AOCS. Peter co-led a GSN session in June.

Nominees:Louise Sheppard – for her work on research and supervision presented in part in February for the GSN.

Nominees: Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker – who have written two highly rated books on supervision. Both very active, Michelle leads on supervision for the Association for Coaching and Carol presented the April 2018 GSN session with Angela Dunbar. Together they have produced a report on “How different kinds of supervision affect experience” which was circulated to GSN members earlier this week.

Congratulations to them all!

[Eve] Created the Global Supervisors Network, which is very popular, un-bureaucratic, and the sessions are always well-attended (not easy to achieve when people are so busy and often don’t invest enough in their own CPD)!

Coaching at Work awards judge (2018)

I believe supervision is the most undervalued part of our work and Eve's focus on developing a community of learning across the supervision space so that we might develop and grow this capability I find inspirational.